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Cryptachaea porteri

Status not recordedspiders

Cryptachaea porteri is a species in the family Theridiidae, order Araneae. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Puerto Rico.

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Quick facts about Cryptachaea porteri

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does Cryptachaea porteri live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

Cryptachaea porteri is listed for 1 country.

Puerto Rico
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Puerto Rico

Why a country list is not a range map

Is Cryptachaea porteri endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Cryptachaea porteri classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classArachnida
  4. orderAraneae
  5. familyTheridiidae
  6. genusCryptachaea
  7. SpeciesCryptachaea porteri (Banks, 1896)

Synonyms Achaearanea porteri, Cryptachaea catapetraea, Cryptachaea portoricensis, Cryptachaea redempta, Theridion redemptum, Theridium porteri, Theridium redemptum

Other names and names in other languages (1)
  • araña de telaraña enredadaSpanish

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Cryptachaea porteri

Other species in the same genus Cryptachaea.

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Common questions

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Where does Cryptachaea porteri live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Cryptachaea porteri for 1 country: Puerto Rico. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is Cryptachaea porteri?

Cryptachaea porteri (Cryptachaea porteri) belongs to the family Theridiidae in the order Araneae.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Cryptachaea porteri (Cryptachaea porteri). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/cryptachaea-porteri

MLA

“Cryptachaea porteri (Cryptachaea porteri).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/cryptachaea-porteri.

BibTeX
@misc{cryptachaea_porteri_2026,
  title = {Cryptachaea porteri (Cryptachaea porteri)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/cryptachaea-porteri},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}